Stats & Facts: Paris Saint-Germain vs Saint-Etienne!
Check out all you need to know about tonight's Coupe de la Ligue quarter-final between Paris Saint-Germain and AS Saint-Etienne at the Parc des Princes!
A little history...
Tonight's match will be the 86th official meeting between Paris Saint-Germain and Saint-Etienne, and history favours the Parisians who boast 46 wins, 26 draws and only 13 defeats.
Paris Saint-Germain are currently on a run of 19 official matches unbeaten (15 wins and 4 draws) against Saint-Etienne, while Les Rouge et Bleu's all-time record of 21 matches against Angers and Nantes is not far away.
Parisian goalscorers also love to take on the club from Le Forez: Les Verts have conceded 150 goals against the Rouge et Bleu - more than any other side.
Indeed, Saint-Etienne could be the first club to concede 100 goals in official matches at the Parc des Princes, with Les Verts having conceded 97 times since the first match between the two clubs at the Parc in the 1974-75 season.
34 players have turned out for both clubs: Alex Dias, José Aloisio, Jérôme Alonzo, Jean-Christophe Bahebeck, Dominique Bathenay, Mathieu Bodmer, Yohan Cabaye, Zoumana Camara, Dominique Casagrande, Jéremy Clément, Grégory Coupet, Mevlut Erding, Laurent Fournier, David Hellebuyck, Robert Jacques, Gérard Janvion, Christophe Landrin, Jean-Michel Larqué, Thierry Laurey, Francis Llacer, Blaise Matuidi, Roland Mitoraj, Bernard Pardo, Stéphane Pédron, Lionel Potillon, Cyril Pouget, Philippe Redon, Dominique Rocheteau, Daniel Sanchez, Liazid Sandjak, Jean-Luc Sassus, Jean-Philippe Séchet, Siaka Tiené and Jean-Luc Vasseur.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic is Paris Saint-Germain's top scorer with 14 goals against Saint-Etienne. He is ahead of Edinson Cavani (12 goals) and Mustapha Dahleb (11 goals).
Edinson Cavani is Paris' top scorer in the Coupe de la Ligue with 15 goals, but he is also tied with Pedro Miguel Pauleta (5 goals with Bordeaux, 10 with Paris Saint-Germain) as the competition's all-time leading scorer. One more goal against Saint-Etienne and "El Matador" would go down in the history of French football one more time...
Angel Di Maria is a Coupe de la Ligue specialist: 8 goals and 10 assists in 14 matches, a decisive contribution every 55 minutes of play in this competition.
The stakes
Paris Saint-Germain, the most successful club in Coupe de la Ligue history with 8 wins in 1995, 1998, 2008, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018, will be keen to make up for last season's elimination at this stage of the competition against Guingamp (1-2, 9 January 2019).
The keys to success
The capital club will be able to count on striker Kylian Mbappe, who has scored in his last seven games with Paris and who could equal a club record held by Carlos Bianchi (8 consecutive matches with at least one goal scored in the 1978-79 season).